Windows Security claims 4.8 is out of date

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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I have updated and restarted numerous times. I appear to be having a major issue here. i uninstalled and reinstalled avast…twice…and I am still getting the same error.

I have had repeated restarts by avast and warnings that my database needs to be updated. Even though I update this and restart…it is continuing to do this.

I also seem to have have lost all my settings on IE and I can’t access secure websites. I get a warning that the certificates are invalid.

I have also been getting active X is being used improperly warnings when I try to run windows security scan.

Any help with this would be great.

I’m running XP.

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Which anti-virus were you using before avast? Remnants from other av’s will conflict with avast causing problems like you’re having.

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I was using avast…I thought maybe it had become corrupted so I uninstalled it and reinstalled it.

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I’ve never had anything other than avast on this HD

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Check your system date is correct, especially the month and year, adjust as required.

The latest version of avast is 4.8.1296, the latest VPS is version 081130-0, what does about avast report (right click the avast icon).

I would suggest firefox or opera as an alternative to IE as neither uses activeX so shouldn’t be improperly used.

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After uninstalling avast!, reboot, run the avast! uninstall utility, reboot.

But first download avast! & save it to your desktop so you can install avast! after the uninstall. After re-installing avast!, reboot.

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If the system date it not correct it won’t matter how you reinstall as the system date will still be the same, that should be the first check.

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I use the free version of alfaclock. It uses the atomic clock to synchronize the time on my computer. The cmos battery in my computer is dead so I loose my time setting every time I shutdown. Alfaclock sets my time at boot up. One odd time at boot up my time was wrong, so I went into alfaclocks settings & hit synchronize & everything was ok. :wink: